The 2025 edition of the Xiwuqi Route 99 Marathon and King of the Grasslands Challenge has opened for registration. The event mirrors last year’s edition with a sprint duathlon for KOG participants on Friday, a marathon/half marathon and fun run…
The 2024 Xiwuqi King and Queen of the Grasslands competition was probably the most exciting ever with two champions who took the crown only in the last race of the weekend on Sunday! Saikhanbileg Enkhbaatar and Chen Yixuan are the…
The 123km long Cyclo Xiwuqi race produced the same two winners as yesterday’s Speedy Xiwuqi: Mongolia’s latest young talent Saikhanbileg Enkhbaatar and China’s leading cycling lady Li Si. The latter even raised eyebrows as she crossed the finish line in…
Speedy Xiwuqi is the new road cycling race in our 3-day festival on Saturday afternoon. With a fast course of 58km, it follows the running event in the morning. For the KOG participants, it is a test of their recovery…
The new Xiwuqi Route 99 Marathon has been won by local Inner Mongolian runner Mengke Wuleji in the men’s in 2h50’08”. He took command at km 31 as yesterday’s sprint duathlon winner Zhang Sipeng suffered from stomach cramps and faded…
The inaugural edition of a sprint duathlon in Xiwuqi as part of the KOG Challenge was held in hot but good conditions and saw some exciting racing in eleven heats and two great finals in the afternoon. The competition was…
The 2024 edition of the Xiwuqi King of the Grasslands Challenge is scheduled from 12 to 14 July and will thus be a 3-day event again for the first time since 2019. Building further upon the event’s redesign introduced last…
Huang Tianyi won the inaugural edition of Cyclo Xiwuqi, a 124 km long race through the grasslands around the town of Xiwuqi. The course is basically flat, but the strong winds made it very tough and competitors reached the finish…
The inaugural Route 99 Time Trial on Saturday afternoon was held in ever deteriorating conditions as wind force picked up in the late afternoon affecting all the KOG competitors in particular. Cycling specialists who did not run the Grassland 50…
The 50km Grassland Run in Xiwuqi was dominated by Zhang Junjie in a fantastic time of 3h28’08”. Meng Ke Wu Le Ji crossed the line in second place just two minutes later. The first ever KOG in Xiwuqi, Wang Lidong…